Hi,

I decided to give D2006 a try again. For the first time I
actually got some D6 component code to compile & so moved on
to typing in some new code. Its like typing on a circa 1981
computer terminal using an acoustic coupler... the character
display is almost a second behind the keyboard  & the CPU
usage jumps to 100%. Anyone had this problem or know the cure?

Thanks,

Sean

Hi Sean,

> Anyone had this problem

Not at all, I am using D2006 regularly and have not had any of the
performance or lag problems you describe. The PC I generally use it on is a
middle-of-the-road P4 3Ghz with 1Gb RAM.
--
Best regards

Steve

"Sean McCall" <NoSpam@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I decided to give D2006 a try again. For the first time I actually got
> some D6 component code to compile & so moved on to typing in some new
> code. Its like typing on a circa 1981 computer terminal using an acoustic
> coupler... the character display is almost a second behind the keyboard  &
> the CPU usage jumps to 100%. Anyone had this problem or know the cure?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sean

I would try and remove every trace of it, and reinstall..

"Sean McCall" <NoSpam@nowhere.com> wrote in message
news:EC67FFA2-2916-4ACA-94DF-A4A463B6D961@news.elevatesoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> I decided to give D2006 a try again. For the first time I actually got
> some D6 component code to compile & so moved on to typing in some new
> code. Its like typing on a circa 1981 computer terminal using an acoustic
> coupler... the character display is almost a second behind the keyboard  &
> the CPU usage jumps to 100%. Anyone had this problem or know the cure?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sean

Sean


You should do what I did and subscribe to the borland.public.delphi.ide.general newsgroup and you'll find lots of stuff about this. First and most important - Tools | Options | Editor Options | Code Insight | Error Insight - DISABLE IT

It seems that it both slows things down and cocks things up (I'm not keen on squiggly red lines under 90% of the code either .

There are some others - like get rid of the together stuff and the star team stuff. It starts to get reasonable then.

I'm still fighting with it. One of my other favourites is that I customise the tool palette - D2006 kept on puting all the 3rd party stuff back in the categories their registration procedure said to use. I ended up altering all the ones I had source for so they'd stay put.



Roy Lambert

Error Insight seemed to be the problem for me (i.e. slow, slow, slow)
Once I disabled it, everything seemed to be essentially the same as D7
in performance.

I can't be sure but I think my apps work a little faster.

I have had 1 occasion where things did seem to slow down (not as slow as
before) but a reboot (or was it just a restart of Delhi) fixed that.

Overall, I am getting quite used to the D2006. Still like my old
slippers tho' (D7)

Jon

Roy Lambert wrote:
> Sean
>
>
> You should do what I did and subscribe to the borland.public.delphi.ide.general newsgroup and you'll find lots of stuff about this. First and most important - Tools | Options | Editor Options | Code Insight | Error Insight - DISABLE IT
>
> It seems that it both slows things down and cocks things up (I'm not keen on squiggly red lines under 90% of the code either .
>
> There are some others - like get rid of the together stuff and the star team stuff. It starts to get reasonable then.
>
> I'm still fighting with it. One of my other favourites is that I customise the tool palette - D2006 kept on puting all the 3rd party stuff back in the categories their registration procedure said to use. I ended up altering all the ones I had source for so they'd stay put.
>
>
>
> Roy Lambert
>

Jon


Yeah (in my case D6). In my case there are some annoying bits - like code completion - its nice of it to add the end; but why the extra blank line after it?

Roy Lambert

I've never been a touch typist so I get end; end;
because I'm adding the end and then finding I don't need to ....

Jon

Roy Lambert wrote:
> Jon
>
>
> Yeah (in my case D6). In my case there are some annoying bits - like code completion - its nice of it to add the end; but why the extra blank line after it?
>
> Roy Lambert
>

Roy,

Why go to borland.public.delphi.ide.general? I've got you
here to distill it all in a quick post

Good tips. I noticed the red squigglies so I bet that is it.
I'll give it a test when I get back from vacation. One nice
thing about D2006 is that it found some ambiguous calls to
overloaded methods that D6 missed.

I can actually hold off from D2006 a little longer because I
also inadvertantly found out what was causing my internal
compiler errors (present in D6, not in D2006). The problem
was a string property that used inherted methods from
another unit. The compiler failed on an internal error when
chosing "RUN" in the IDE when that property is assigned a
string constant. Doesn't happen when "BUILD ALL" is
selected. Pretty obscure and just minor pain, but it became
a show stopper when it wouldn't compile a unit in a
component package. I worked around it by writing new methods
in the component where the redundant property was surfaced
and simply referenced the inherited methods from there.

I still don't like the way D2006 takes up more screen real
estate, so I'm pushing the boss for a nice 24" monitor to
help me take the big plunge.

Thanks!

Sean



Roy Lambert wrote:
> Sean
>
>
> You should do what I did and subscribe to the borland.public.delphi.ide.general newsgroup and you'll find lots of stuff about this. First and most important - Tools | Options | Editor Options | Code Insight | Error Insight - DISABLE IT
>
> It seems that it both slows things down and cocks things up (I'm not keen on squiggly red lines under 90% of the code either .
>
> There are some others - like get rid of the together stuff and the star team stuff. It starts to get reasonable then.
>
> I'm still fighting with it. One of my other favourites is that I customise the tool palette - D2006 kept on puting all the 3rd party stuff back in the categories their registration procedure said to use. I ended up altering all the ones I had source for so they'd stay put.
>
>
>
> Roy Lambert
>

Jon

>I've never been a touch typist so I get end; end;
>because I'm adding the end and then finding I don't need to ....

Snap

Roy Lambert

Sean

>Why go to borland.public.delphi.ide.general? I've got you
>here to distill it all in a quick post

Because there's lots of stuff there, and if the red squiggles hadn't annoyed me I wouldn't have done anything about it and wouldn't have been able to tell you <vbcg>. Plus there's other stuff - definitely worth wading through.

>I still don't like the way D2006 takes up more screen real
>estate, so I'm pushing the boss for a nice 24" monitor to
>help me take the big plunge.

Go for a wide screen monitor - I'm using an HP zd8000 and its great.

Roy Lambert